We have a look at the history of copyright and what it actually is.
We look at how copyright affects software and why software licenses are necessary.
We take a look at the history of free and open source software.
What makes a software license a free and open source license?
We take a tour of the classic permissive licenses. This episode discusses: BSDs, MIT.
We continue our tour of permissive licenses. This episode discusses: Apache License 2.0, MPL 2.0, various other permissive licenses such as WTFPL, Beerware, Unlicense, CC-0, zlib license.
We have a look at the GNU licenses. This episode discusses: GPL, LGPL, AGPL and GFDL.
We take a look at tivoization. What is it, and why is it controversial?
Mirko Boehm visits foss-north and talks about software patents (part 1).
Mirko Boehm visits foss-north and talks about software patents (part 2).
What is an open project? There is more beyond open source. We also discuss why open projects sometimes are less open. For instance when it comes to responsible disclosure and trademarks.
In our summer special Daniel Stenberg visits foss-north and talks about curl, the curl license, and how he picked a license for curl.
We continue our summer special with Daniel Stenberg, Mr Curl. We discuss patents, emacs, vim, rust, wolfssl and more.
After having discussed about licenses, patents, communities and more we discuss how to choose a license. What to think about and how to reason.
Announcing that we have a pod and what we will talk about during the autumn.
Home of the pod cast: https://foss-north.se/pod
The next foss-north event: https://foss-north.se/2020ii/
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Reach us at: info@foss-north.se
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This is the first part of three about license compliance.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This is the second part of three about license compliance.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This is the final part of three about license compliance.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This week we talk about the Creative Commons licenses.
The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This week we talk about the contributor agreements with Catharina Maracke.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This is the first episode about business models and we discuss the Services and Packaging models.
The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This is the second episode about business models and we discuss the Physical Products and Open Core models.
The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This is a special episode about business models where we are joined by George Hosu and discuss Dual Licensing.
George's blog: https://blog.cerebralab.com
The article that got us going: https://blog.cerebralab.com/Dual_licensing_GPL_for_fame_and_profit
Mindsdb's github: https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb
Javascript color logging stealing passwords and credit cards: https://medium.com/hackernoon/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5
Learning random numbers with neural networks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.01117.pdf
Alternatively: https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/3850/can-a-neural-network-be-used-to-predict-the-next-pseudo-random-number
And the reference for my claim of Goldman Sachs stealing GPL code and bribing the FBI to throw their coders in jail: https://cryptome.org/2014/04/goldman-sachs-code-thief.htm (but it's a sotry from a Michael Lewis book, so whatever, take it with a grain of salt.)
Example of huge **** with popular non-opensource encryption library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROCA_vulnerability
The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. This is the third and last episode about business models and we discuss the as-a-Service and Dual Licensing models, as well as the option of not having a business model at all.
The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode, Javier Serrano joins us and discuss open hardware and how open licenses work in that space.
The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode, Philippe Ombredanne joins us and discuss license compliance, scancode and more.
The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode, Kim Lantto from Gothenburg joins us and discuss open data, open source and more.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode, Kim Lantto from Gothenburg joins us and discuss open source, open data and more.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode, Matija Šuklje joins us and open source, compliance, patents, surströmming and more.
The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode Burkhard Stubert joins us and talks about complying with LGPL.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode Olof Kindgren joins us and talks about open silicon, FOSSi foundation, FuseSoc and more.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode Olof Kindgren joins us and talks about open silicon, FOSSi foundation, FuseSoc and more.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode Alexander Larsson joins us and talks about flatpak, containers, the linux desktop and more. Links
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode Lukasz Erecinski joins us and talks about pine64, open source support for hardware, and more.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode Pavel Kopylov from Synergon joins us to talk about protection of intellectual property, patents, trademarks, open source, and more.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode we discuss Qt licensing, the KDE Free Qt Foundation, KDE and the ancient times with Cornelius Schumacher.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode we discuss heavy metal, open source enabling, and more with Cornelius Schumacher from Deutsche Bahn.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode we talk to Emil Wåreus from Debricked who work with measuring open source project health, and more.
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The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode we talk to Josef and Gustav from SVT (Swedish Television) who work with open source projects within their organization.
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